? I mean it’s not done yet, but I wanted to go ahead and get the book out there for people to start reading. (If you’ve ever purchased a beta book from Pragmatic Programmers you know what I’m talking about.) I’ve got updated versions of the original RSpec articles from this blog in pl...

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My First Impressions of RubyMotion Posted by adelevie on May 08, 2012 — 0 comments Yet another RubyMotion first impressions post . Comments   Post a Comment Comment abilities for non registered users are currently deactivated, pending time to add a proper CAPTCHA to solve the escala...

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at 5:51AM My Cub Scouts say they want to do more camping, fishing, whittling, and science. Gonna be a fun summer. Sortbox - "Like e-mail filters, for your Dropbox". Looks interesting, though I'm always wary of trusting yet another company with access to my data. O...

I18n alchemy - localization and parsing Posted by josevalim on May 08, 2012 — 0 comments Carlos Antonio from Plataformatec has finally released to the public his I18n alchemy gem: an alternative for localization and parsing of I18n data with Active Model . Comments   Post a Comment ...

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My ebook on learning how to test with RSpec is now available Posted by everydayrails on May 08, 2012 — 0 comments A series of posts I did recently on Everyday Rails about how I learned to test Rails applications (using RSpec) gained a bit of traction, so I decided to make an extended ...

For the purpose of this post, I think we should establish a description of Disaster Recovery and how it relates to High Availability. Disaster recovery includes the processes, policies and procedures related to preparing for recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure critic...

But if you like to read Manga (Japanese Comics), you’re probably familiar with “Furigana”, which is kind of like “subtitling” over the Kanjis with Hiragana or Katakana, which are the Japanese syllabus based alphabets (the first for Japanese only words, the second for foreign words). T...

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But if you like to read Manga (Japanese Comics), you’re probably familiar with “Furigana”, which is kind of like “subtitling” over the Kanjis with Hiragana or Katakana, which are the Japanese syllabus based alphabets (the first for Japanese only words, the second for foreign words). T...

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Dynamic finders work only with model attributes, not with associations. So if you have a belongs_to :user association on an article, you have to write Article.find_by_user_id(user.id) . I have an experimental patch that provides this functionality. I'm not entirely sure what to do wit...

return_bang implements non-local exits for methods. As a bonus, you also get exception handling that ignores standard Ruby's inflexible begin; rescue; ensure; end syntax. Use return_bang to exit back to a processing loop from deeply nested code, or just to confound your enemies *and* ...

Attention API Provider: How to make people using your API love you At Arcturo , we’ve been working with a lot of remote API’s and big data lately. The more API’s from all over the web I work with, the more I realize how much some companies really get how to build an API that developer...

Testing support was woven into the Rails fabric from the beginning. It wasn’t an “oh! let’s bolt on support for running tests because they’re new and cool” epiphany. Just about every Rails application interacts heavily with a database – and, as a result, your tests will need a databas...

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